"February 21st - Red" Abstract Expressionist Landscape by William Morehouse

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"February 21st - Red" Abstract Expressionist Landscape by William Morehouse
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The image shows an abstract landscape painting by William Paul Morehouse (American, 1929-1993), titled "February 21st - Red". The painting has a textured application of impasto, in oil on canvas, with dominant earth tones and a contrasting red section at the top. The composition is divided into geometric shapes and lines, suggesting a stylized representation of a landscape. The colors and textures evoke a sense of the Northern California coastal prairie, a recurring theme in Morehouse's work. The painting is signed, titled, and dated 1960 on the reverse., and WM '60 center bottom of painting.
Image, 34"H x 20"W x .5"D
Signed center at bottom, Signed and dated on verso, with exhibition label and title.
Post War California artist, William Paul Morehouse studied at the California School of Fine Arts (1947-1950) receiving his BFA.
Not long after graduation from the CSFA he joined the Army during the Korean War. He became a Master Sergeant and was released with a Purple Heart in 1953, at which point he enrolled in courses at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts). A transfer to the San Francisco Art Institute the following year led to his Bachelors in Fine Arts, and in 1954 he enrolled at San Francisco State University where in under two years he earned his MFA. He traveled to New York that same year to participate in the Young American Painters exhibition at the Guggenheim, along with Diebenkorn, deKooning, Motherwell, and Jackson Pollock. He soon began dividing his time between the two coasts.

Morehouse eventually settled in Bodega Bay permanently, where he continued to paint as part of the group the "Sonoma Four"

Selected Group Exhibitions: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; University of Illinois; Fort Worth Museum; Los Angeles County Museum; National Academy; Oakland Art Museum; Rotunda Gallery, San Francisco; Denver Art Museum; Fourth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, California Palace of The Legion of Honor 1951; First Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition, Santa Barbara Museum of Art & California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco 1955; PACIFIC COAST ART, 3rd Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1955; CALIFORNIA PAINTERS, 40 Painters, Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, 1956; Contemporary American Painters, 1950-1955, Stanford Art Gallery 1956; Pacific Coast Invitational, Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
1962

Literature: Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Painting and Sculpture Collection

Source:
David J Carlson, Carlson Gallery, California. Carlson's specialty is Post-World War II California artists, and he is preparing a catalogue for a 2004 traveling exhibition of these artists to several California museums.

The following is from Michele Morehouse, October 2003:

Education:
1947-50 California School of Fine Arts
1953 California College of Arts and Crafts
1953-54 San Francisco Art Institute BFA
1954-56 San Francisco State University MA

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
1996 William Morehouse: The Chinois Paintings,King/Heller Gallery, Bodega, CA
1995 Willaim Morehouse, A Memorial Exhibition, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
1994 The Coffee Gound Series, King/Heller Gallery, Freestone, CA
1994 Landscape Envisioned, Paintings "En Plein Air" ,Bradford Gallery,
San Anselmor, CA
1994 William Morehouse: The Chinois Series,Hing -Heller Gallery, Bodega, CA
1993 Landscape Paintings, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco
1991 California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
1987 SFMOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Gannon Gallery, Bismark, ND
1984 South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco
1983 Oberon Gallery, Napa, CA
1982 Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco
1980 John Bolles Gallery, Santa Rosa
1979 Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston
1979 Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa
1978 Kingswood Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1977 William Morehouse: The Subway Series (An Evolution of an Idea)
San Jose Museum of Art
1873 St Mary's College, Moraga, Ca
1969 Galeriea Carl Van der Voort, Ibiza, Spain
1967 Richmond Art Center, Richmond,Ca
1965 Harbor Gallery, Oakland, Ca
1961 Realities Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
1960 Atherton Gallery, Menlo Park, Ca
1958 6 Gallery, San Francisco
1958 John Bolles Gallery, San Francisco
1958 John Bolles Gallery, New York
1954 Telegraph Gallery, San Francisco See less